No bids on unpublished photos of Diego Rivera

updated 2:29 p.m. ET May 30, 2009

MEXICO CITY - Unpublished photos of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera at work received no bids at an auction Saturday in Mexico.

The negatives included images of Rivera painting two of his most famous murals, of wife Frida Kahlo, and of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros and exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

The 37 negatives were offered in two packages, but no one met the minimum bids of 80,000 pesos ($6,000) and 25,000 pesos ($1,900).

"There were people interested but no one made an offer," said Vivian Gorinstein of the auction house Galerias Louis C. Morton.

The negatives belong to the assistant of a photographer who knew Rivera during the 1940s and 1950s, according to the auction house.

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